The OASIS LegalDocumentML (LegalDocML) TC [1] members have
recently approved three Committee Specification Drafts (CSDs)
and submitted them for 30-day public review:

Akoma Ntoso Version 1.0

Committee Specification Draft 01 / Public Review Draft 01

14 January 2015

Akoma Ntoso Naming Convention Version 1.0

Committee Specification Draft 01 / Public Review Draft 01

14 January 2015

Akoma Ntoso Media Type Version 1.0

Committee Specification Draft 01 / Public Review Draft 01

25 March 2015

Overview:

Akoma Ntoso Version 1.0 provides .

Part 1: XML Vocabulary presents the main motivations,
design principles, and benefits of the Akoma Ntoso vocabulary
and approach. The document is non-normative material that
presents the main pillars of Akoma Ntoso to the stakeholders
that need to take decisions about how to manage legal sources
in a digital manner in a Semantic Web society.

Part 2: Specifications documents the Akoma Ntoso XSD and
DTD standard, including the graphic representation using
Oxygen library.

Akoma Ntoso Naming Convention Version 1.0 provides the
naming convention for defining IRIs and ids related to the
Akoma Ntoso XML standard. Within the schema of Akoma Ntoso, id
attributes are declared as optional, but whenever attributes
eId and wId are actually used the specifications in this
document are mandatory.

Akoma Ntoso Media Type Version 1.0 contains the relevant
information for the registration of the Akoma Ntoso media type
(akn+xml) with IANA.

TC Description:

The LegalDocML TC produced the Akoma Ntoso XML schema 3.0
and main documentation. The TC is now working on the advanced
documentation, tutorial material and success stories.

Public Review Period:

The public review starts 07 May 2015 at 00:00 UTC and ends
05 June 2015 at 23:59 UTC.

This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits
feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether
OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the
interoperability and quality of its technical work.

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS
Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide
carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of
the TC members. In connection with this public reviews of
"Akoma Ntoso Version 1.0" and the related drafts, we call your
attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [2] applicable especially
[3] to the work of this technical committee. All members of
the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create
obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a
member's patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that
read on an approved OASIS specification.

OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to
disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation
of the above specification, so that notice of them may be
posted to the notice page for this TC's work.